Background

Professor Yu-Hwa Lo received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley
in 1987. He worked at Bellcore as a technical staff member from 1988-1990, and
became an assistant and then associate professor of Cornell University from
1991 to 1999. He became a professor of UCSD in 1999 and has been the director
of the Nano3 Facility (Nanoscience, Nanoengineering, and Nanomedicine) since
2005. Currently his research interests are in microfluidics and optofluidics,
lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedicine, bio-imaging, nanophotonics, and semiconductor
single-photon detectors. He has published around 350 papers and 8 book chapters
and been awarded 22 patents. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America
and the IEEE.